Essays Tagged: "One Direction"

Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery from the years of 1861-1865

the President with a tumultuous task at hand. Even though his personal beliefs may have led him in one direction, they needed to be filtered in order to appease both the North and the South. Despite ... ould be driven out of Maryland, to issue a proclamation of emancipation. . . . I said nothing to anyone; but I made a promise to myself and . . . to my Maker." Lincoln despised slavery. He bit his ton ...

(4 pages) 137 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Did the Portuguese "discover" Australia in the 1520's?

a" it is believed that"The evidence of pre-Cook, pre-Dutch visits by other Europeans points only in one direction - to the proposition that, in the ninety years before the first Dutch sighting, the Po ... ps, known as the Dieppe Maps, which are French copies of early sixteenth century Portuguese charts. One of these, called the Dauphin Map is said to "depict a southern continent that is thought to repr ...

(8 pages) 68 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Biology notes on "The Muscular System."

Muscles are what allow and make your skeleton able to move around. The muscles are attached to the bones by strips of dense connective tissue called tendons. The origin is one end of the muscle which ... scle something to pull against. The insertion is the other side of the muscle, it is attached to a bone that moves when the muscle contracts. A muscle's insertion always moves towards its origin. Flex ...

(1 pages) 53 0 4.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

An Essay primarily evaluating the theme of madness on Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Titled: Salutary Suggestions of Sanity

Striving to reach utopia, our society attempts to conform and tries to make all people equal. If one is not as equal as the other, he is mad, or has a problem. As Ralph Waldo Emerson states, "Sanit ... here is not a person who is labeled sane. There is no formula for a sane man. In Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, a small ward of a small hospital in Oregon is the ironic setting sy ...

(5 pages) 51 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Projectile Motion and Arrow Flight

oes up and down. The horizontal vector stays constant because the projectile is still traveling in one direction. The vertical vector changes because the projectile is moving in one direction, up, a ... ctor and a horizontal vector. They are not related. Horizontal and vertical vectors do not affect one another. The vectors play a part in the trajectory of projectile flight.Vectors are not the ...

(5 pages) 27 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

A Step Forward The advantages of Web-based conferencing

us to instantly share our desktop with many people at the same time. Communication usually flows in one direction. Participants speak or listen (usually via telephone) and direct their attention to th ... our associates at a central location, as that it may not be feasible. Presentations are given to anyone, anywhere in the world. Clients can watch hands-on demonstrations of a product and can even cont ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

The Future of Radio

improvements over the years looking back to the 1920's when radio only had an AM frequency. One direction radio is going is through satellites. In 2001 XM radio was launched and over 1 million ... was the first person in history to use magnetic (radio) waves to send a message. He is the first pioneer of radio. Without Gugliemo Marconi sending the message there could possibly be no on air radio ...

(2 pages) 85 1 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Solving N-Queens problem using Genetic Algorithms

ly, or diagonally, backward and forward, with the only restriction being that they can move in only one direction at a time. A queen that can reach another piece in one move captures it.The N-Queens p ... ble. They are GADemeGA, GAIncrementalGA, GASimpleGA and GASteadyStateGA. It is alright to choose anyone of them. To make things simple, GASimpleGA was chosen.2.2 RepresentationAfter that, we need to d ...

(17 pages) 46 0 3.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

Comedic short story.

yelled really loud from where we started you couldn't even hear it where we were. When we were all done we were in the middle of the woods and suddenly, we all had pink shoes on. It was at this point ... he smart type of kids and got a plan together on how to get out. We got sticks and we walked off in one direction making a straight line in the multicolored autumn leaves to make sure we would not tur ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Supply Chain Management: The Heartbeat of Dell

y pumping through four chambers each with a series of valves and flaps which restrict blood flow in one direction. When demand is decreased, the heart rests, pumping slower as required. In a similar f ... oes onto the Internet, prices and orders a computer customized with a desired set of name-brand components, and 2-3 days later it is delivered right to their doorstep. Due to the seamless nature of th ...

(7 pages) 378 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

Do Campaigns Matter?

t is behind them, is the most important factor for election. Campaigning should consist of raising money from constituents. This money raised should go to gaining mass public exposure. This consists o ... ucted at strategic points in campaigns. There results often influence voters to think and decide in one direction. The candidate is influenced by being able to tell if he/she is doing well, if not, th ...

(2 pages) 15 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Newton's laws of physics

car, and you suddenly turn around a corner, you get thrown to the side. That is because you move in one direction, and the car changes direction, but you still want to go the direction you were alread ... proportional to the mass of the object. For example, if you are pushing equally on two objects, and one of the objects has five times more mass than the other, it will accelerate at one fifth the acce ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Napoleon: Confirm or Deny the Revolution

While there is debate over whether Napoleon confirmed or denied the French Revolution there is one thing that is clear and un-debatable; he was what ended it. Whether it was with his death or wit ... son's opinion is. While to each his opinion is his own, I believe that the evidence shown points in one direction more than the other. I believe that despite some of his actions and despite some facts ...

(5 pages) 29 0 3.0 May/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

How To Ride A Bus

to Texas. Many students are from areas that don't have buses, or that have busses, but run in only one direction and are easy to figure out. For the unfortunate majority of freshmen who didn't bring ... San Francisco could be overwhelming or even scary. Using the San Francisco Municipal bus system is one of the easiest ways to travel the city after learning the rules, maps, times and fees.The first ...

(4 pages) 1325 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Enviornment

rent throughout the world, is a global issue. We cannot point the finger and place the blame in any one direction, on those polluting the environment. If we look at our environment as a global issue, ... As free trade has rapidly increased production throughout the world and between many parties, one is ignorant to accuse one member of a free trade agreement in the lax of environmental preservat ...

(2 pages) 17 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Attach On America

pers and why would they do this? Over the past three weeks events and FBI leads have all pointed in one direction. On the day that all the events took place no one was really sure what was going on an ... states. Many people though had a pretty good idea. When the thought of terrorism enters someone's mind most people immediately think of someone from the middle east. I know I sure do. Even tho ...

(3 pages) 919 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Hamlet - Study Guide

to spy on his son, Laertes, in France and deliver him news about him. His philosophy is that if someone goes in one direction that is the path he or she will follow in his/her life. If the path is wro ... lieves that Hamlet is really mad.b) Polonius also believes Hamlet's madness, and wants to shoe everyone that he is right. He takes out his anger at Ophelia.ACT II, SCENE 2 2.Rosencrantz and Guildenste ...

(3 pages) 91 1 3.5 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet